“Wherever the topic of police brutality comes up, people always say, ‘it’s just a case of a few bad apples.’ But the expression is not ‘a few bad apples are really annoying,’ or ‘one bad apples make the others look bad.’ It’s ‘one bad apple SPOILS the bunch.’ That’s why farmers get rid of bad apples. They don’t defend bad apples. They don’t give bad apples promotions. They don’t let bad apples take early retirement with full pensions. They throw them out to protect the good ones. If police departments want the respect of the public, they have to earn it by showing us they actually care about their product. Until then, it’s perfectly reasonable to assume the whole barrel is spoiled and the farmer doesn’t care.” -- Jeremy McLellan